ASUU STRIKE UPDATE: FG, ASUU Reach
Agreement Over Strike
The Federal Government and the Academic Staff
Union of Universities have reached an agreement
to end the over five month old strike by ASUU. The
lecturer’s association has however said that its
members may return to work next week.
The Supervising Minister of Education, Mr.
Nyesom Wike told journalists at a meeting with the
leadership of ASUU, President of the Nigeria
Labour Congress, Executive Secretary of the
Nigerian Universities Commission and five vice-
chancellors of universities that all contending
issues between the parties have been resolved.
The parties signed a document to seal the
agreement which spells great hope that the over
five-month old strike may be called off within one
week, although the president of ASUU, Professor
Nasir Faggae declined to say what was contained
in the document.
ASUU’s demands include the upward review of
the retirement age for professors from 65 to 70;
adequate funding to revitalise the university
system; progressive increase of budgetary
allocations to the education sector by 26 per cent;
transfer of federal government property to
universities; setting up of research and
development units by companies; payment of
earned allowances; and renegotiation of the
signed agreement.
The agreement between the two is reached barely
24 hours after the Special Assistant on Public
Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe presented a proof of
payment of N200 billion into an account with the
Central Bank of Nigeria.
The strike began on July 1st 2013 and lasted for
over five months before this resolution was
reached.
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K, we don hear, so wen are they going to call off d strike?

Na today?